HR&CE to use blockchain tech to keep digitised temple docus safe | Chennai News

CHENNAI: About 4 crore pages of property paperwork belonging to Hindu spiritual and charitable endowments (HR&CE) temples are being digitised and saved utilizing blockchain expertise with a view to safeguarding them from tampering and stopping fraudulent property registrations. The division has tied up with Elcot to hold out the work. The digital imprints could be saved in three completely different places within the nation. The HR&CE is doing the work with the assistance of Tamil Nadu e-Governance Company. The digitised documents could be saved within the Elcot facility at Perungudi in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Catastrophe Restoration Centre in Trichy and National Informatics Centre in Pune. “Blockchain expertise is getting used to make sure that not one of the paperwork are hacked and tampered with in future. Solely by synergized locking-in from two websites can anybody entry the info,” stated an official. Commissioner and different senior officers could be given a digital key to entry the info immediately. The division, on Friday, launched the duty of scanning the paperwork in affiliation with Elcot. It was began by HR&CE minister P Ok Sekar Babu. “At current, Elcot has deployed 13 scanners and as many technicians to scan the everlasting paperwork out there within the data room. We’re scanning the paperwork year-wise, ranging from the oldest recordsdata,” stated a senior official. Paperwork from 1900 to 1921 have been taken up for scanning now. “On a median, the technicians can scan 20,000 pages per day. We’re making efforts to offer extra space to Elcot to put in extra scanners and improve the scanning capability to 50,000 pages per day,” stated the official. Among the pages are brittle and their corners are broken. In lots of circumstances, the writings are uninteresting and light. Nonetheless, Elcot is utilizing a software program to seize even light textual content to transform into readable format. The venture is aimed toward attaining transparency and preserving the paperwork of greater than 44,000 temples and their properties similar to land and buildings. The temples have 4.75 lakh acres of land and greater than 55,o00 buildings, together with marriage halls and outlets throughout the state. The division is planning to finish the method in six months. “We are going to begin scanning paperwork out there at joint and affiliate commissioners’ workplaces subsequent week. It’s estimated to value Rs 4 crore,” stated the official.